Nar Phu language

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Nar Phu
Native to
Nepal
Region
Manang district
Native speakers

600 (2011)[1]
Language family


Sino-Tibetan

  • Tamangic

    • Manang
      • Nar Phu




Dialects

  • Nar (Lower Nar)

  • Phu (Upper Nar)


Language codes
ISO 639-3
npa
Glottolog
narp1239[2]

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Nar Phu, or ’Narpa, is a Sino-Tibetan variety spoken in the two villages of Nar and Phu, in the Valley of the Nar Khola in the Manang district of Nepal. It forms a dialect continuum with Manang and may be intelligible with it; however, the Nar and Phu share a secret language to confound Gyasumdo and Manang who would otherwise understand them.[1]



Contents




  • 1 Phonology


    • 1.1 Vowels


    • 1.2 Consonants


    • 1.3 Tones




  • 2 References


  • 3 Bibliography


  • 4 External links





Phonology



Vowels






























Front

Back

Close

i

u

Close-mid

e

o

Open-mid

ɛ


Low

a

ɑ


Consonants









































































































Bilabial

Dental

Retroflex

Alveolo-palatal

Velar

Plosive

unaspirated

p

t

ʈ


k

aspirated

pʰ

tʰ

ʈʰ


kʰ

Affricate

unaspirated


ts


tɕ


aspirated


tsʰ


tɕʰ


Fricative


s


ɕ


Nasal

m

n


ɲ

ŋ

Lateral

voiced


l




voiceless


l̥




Rhotic

voiced


r




voiceless


r̥




Approximant

w



j

ɰ


Tones


Nar Phu distinguishes three tones: high falling, high level, low rising murmured, and mid/low falling murmured.



References





  1. ^ ab Nar Phu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)


  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nar Phu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 




Bibliography



  • Noonan, Michael (2003). "Nar-Phu" Sino-Tibetan Languages, edited by Randy LaPolla and Graham Thurgood, 336-352. London: Routledge.

  • Kristine A. Hildebrandt (2013). “Converb and aspect marking polysemy in Nar” Responses to Language Endangerment: In Honor of Mickey Noonan, edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval, and Kathleen Wheatley, 97-117. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Kristine A. Hildebrandt, D.N. Dhakal, Oliver Bond, Matt Vallejo and Andrea Fyffe. (2015). “A sociolinguistic survey of the languages of Manang, Nepal: Co-existence and endangerment.” NFDIN Journal, 14.6: 104-122.



External links



  • Manang Languages Project of Kristine Hildebrandt


  • Nar-Phu language archive at the University of Virginia Tibetan and Himalayan Library
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